MTX 4-23

Mountain Training Exercise, 4-23

Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Ca.

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"Marines from 2nd Battalion 23d Marine Regiment will conduct mountain training exercises aboard Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport allowing Marines to sustain warfighting functions while participating in realistic combat training in a mountainous environment. The purpose of MTX is to facilitate increased readiness and to challenge units’ ability to plan and perform."

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Marine awarded Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic actions

Cpl. David Qualls (left), a motor transport assistant operations chief with Marine Wing Support Squadron 471, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Forces Reserve, Lt. Col. Vincent Dawson (center), the executive officer of Marine Aircraft Group 41, Marine Forces Reserve, and Sgt. Maj. Christopher Thomas, the Inspector-Instructor sergeant major at 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, MARFORRES, stand at attention as Qualls’ Navy and Marine Corps Award citation is read at the 1/23 headquarters in Houston, Texas, May 20, 2017. In 2014, Qualls and other Marines helped save a man stuck inside a burning vehicle. According to the award summary, had he not arrived when he did, the man would have surely died. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Dallas Johnson)

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Photo by: Cpl. Dallas Johnson | VIRIN: 170520-M-WQ182-003.JPG

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